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>Chapter 7. Queries</H1
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>7.1. <A
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>7.2. <A
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>7.2.1. <A
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>The <TT
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>GROUP BY</TT
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><TT
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>7.4. <A
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>LIMIT</TT
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>OFFSET</TT
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><TT
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>VALUES</TT
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>WITH</TT
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>7.8.1. <A
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>7.8.2. <A
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>  The previous chapters explained how to create tables, how to fill
  them with data, and how to manipulate that data.  Now we finally
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